j o h n  r o s

introduction xi - xii
“he [thoreau] had already made up his mind that most of the ways by which men earn a living are degrading and that men sell themselves into perpetual bondage by conforming to the traditional ways of the world.”
… he toiled over his thoughts, which was his lifetime occupation … for the volumes […]

we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
– edward r. murrow
as waited and walked — in passing across scapes of mind and eye — looking not to a passerby or to life’s eye, but simply ahead — in constraint, self-ambition and moral disregard.
through and by — to marked segments on this timeline — […]